What Is The Role Of Discrimination In American Society

White privilege, ignorance, and blindness are not valid reasons for minimizing racial oppression or social injustice. The reach of white privilege is extensive yet rarely recognized by white individuals. Most individuals are not aware of their white privilege or the subtle "accommodations" that are afforded white individuals not shared by African Americans. White privilege affords those of white identity all-inclusive membership privileges that insulate them from the historical, institutionalized rules long-favoring whites at the expense of black oppression. This privileged lens further perpetuates blindness of not seeing the advantages given to those unaffected regardless of status, character, or merit. Stories of “historically invisible sufferers” as they stand in solidarity must be given the platform to give their accounts. An analysis of white privilege reveals blindness to the moral responsibility of the effects of racism: authenticating the need of further exploring white privilege, opening dialogue, increasing awareness, and facilitating change.

Adams, W. Blumenfeld, C. Castaneda, H. Hackman, M. Peters, & X. Zuniga book “Readings in diversity and social justice” chapters 6-10 (2010) they discussed in order to rid oppression it starts with recognizing our social identity and how it contributed to our socialization. In order to understand socialization you need to understand the socialization cycle. Supporting subordinate groups are privileged and target groups are disfranchised but the worse is these roles are determined without our permission. The authors argue that once individuals understand oppression and want to make a change they become frustrated with the process of liberation. Supporting that the process of liberation is a cycle that begins with empowerment of self, ends with maintain, and at the core is a serious of attributes (self-love, hope, self-esteem, balance, joy, support, security, spiritual base, and authentic love of others. In differ the authors’ further support the idea white people are compensating for the system of advantage but as high as the cost of black people. The authors back up this claim through the notion of whites benefit from racism but they don’t all benefit

This week’s readings focused on a topics associated with the white population of America. Some of these topics included the privileges white individuals are often unknowingly accustomed to (McIntosh,1) as well as the lack of responsibility and motivation many whites feel when it comes to eliminating racism. This is a social problem because it constructs biases that often times negatively affect the interactions between whites and individuals of color. This potentially leads to many issues including racism, hate crimes, and the unequal treatment races.

Bonilla-Silva states, “individuals are not the ones who create larger systems such as ‘capitalism,’ ‘patriarchy,’ or ‘racialized social systems,’ but they are the ‘cogs’ that allow these systems to run” (p. 221). The main purpose of this book is not to portray whites as evil beings in the U.S. or demonize dominant groups in other societies but to point out that invisible privilege is in need of acknowledgment from the dominant group. Meaning, if you have a voice to stand up for the injustice, use

Throughout history, there has been discrimination against race, religion, gender, orientation, age, among many other things. From the British preventing the colonists’ rights to the “separate but equal” doctrine people used to justify discrimination against African Americans, America has had its fair share of it. After years of the mockery of equality that African Americans had, change was needed. Out of the thousands of voices who brought the winds of change, that were heard the most were: Martin Luther King Jr., for convincing people to join their cause; Thurgood Marshall, who used the law to get people to listen to their voices; and the Silent Majority, for without them, freedom would never truly ring from every mountainside.

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” This quote stated by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, presents us with the idea that in order for people to gain the freedom they desire, they must demand and fight for what they believe in. For as long as the civilization has been around, certain minorities get purposely separated from a larger, more powerful group of people, also known as the majority. When this happens, the minority gets discriminated, segregated, treated unfairly, bossed around, and controlled by the majority who is against them. The minorities then start to realize how this is wrong, unfair, unjust and immoral.

People blindly climb the ladder to “Make America Great Again,” not realizing that rungs are hard-working immigrants and people of color. White people have the advantage of being born into a world of opportunity that others simply lack. According to The New Progressive, “Whites are 78% more likely to be accepted to the same university as equally qualified people of color,” (www.thenewprogressive.net). White people never have to face the fact that maybe their whiteness is advantageous to them. They can blindly accept a college admission or job promotion, never having to question why them over someone else. That luxury of living life without being constantly racially discriminated is the embodiment of

The election of Barack Obama as the 56th president of the United States raised many hopes that the “Black struggles” was finally over. For conservatives, Obama victory reassured their beliefs that there was no longer such thing as racism and that every American had equal rights and opportunity to pursue the American dream. While many people have come to believe that all races have equal rights in America, Tim Wise argues in his documentary “White Like Me” that not only does racism and unconscious racial bias still exist, but that also White Americans are unable to simply relate to the variety of forms racism and inequality Blacks experience. This is mainly because of the privileges they get as the “default.” While Wise explores the variety forms of racism and inequality today such as unconscious racism, Black poverty, unemployment, inadequate education system, and prison system, the articles by the New York Times Editorial Board, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Adam Liptak further explore some the disparities in the criminal justice system. Ana Swanson points out in her article, “The Stubborn Persistence of Black-White Inequality, 50 Years after Selma” that while the “U.S. has made big strides towards equal rights,” significant gaps still remains between the two races. With the Supreme Court striking down a “portion of the Voting Rights Act that stopped discriminatory voting laws from going into effect in areas of the country with histories of disenfranchisement,” civil

Reflection Precis 4, White Privilege (04/01/18- 04/08/18) Part I: Our country was founded as a racist society. From slavery to racial segregation people of color have faced many disadvantages and setbacks in the struggle for equality. When as a country we spent hundreds of years believing that the white race was superior, it’s not easy to let go of all the racist intolerances that have been imbedded into our culture. The remnants of our racists society have created systematic racism which is not as obvious as what racism once was and it often overlooked; especially by newer generations.

Society has been significantly revolutionized since the beginnings of the United States. The very history of the country has been cursed with racism and the harsh oppression of minorities. In fact, America’s power and economy were founded on a Marxist theory of a two-class system. On the top of that system were the slave owners, and at the very bottom were the slaves themselves (Balkaran, 1999). Slavery and segregation used to be huge components in the lives of Americans. During those times, “Americans” were white, landowning men; obviously that principle has been altered a great deal. People of color, women, and the poor actually have been given suffrage by amendments in the Constitution. Although the United States’ culture and society

In today’s time, the United States of America have drifted off its course of trying to reach a utopia. Social problems are rising for many people of color and non-color people. The problems have been illuminated in politics, education, employment, and social media. Problems such as discrimination of a certain group of people, and economic hardship are the most common issues. Reflecting back on America’s history, America has had a long history of white versus black ever since the slavery era, which took place during the time of the civil war. Ever since then, the United States have striven and persevere to change its society ethics. But, America is now slowly shifting back to a world where white supremacy and people of color are immensely separated

The United States, even though considered the land of freedom, has been struggling with lingering racism and discrimination throughout the 19th and 20th century. Democratic reform throughout the century were implanted to eliminate the “tyranny of the white majority” Yet many scholars like Tocqueville, Fredrick Harris and WEB DuBois have challenged these results. The reality is that the tyranny of white majority has continued throughout the 18th to the 21st century resulting in a society that has suppressed and constantly failed to integrate African American into the white society by neglecting the race, using natural prejudice, race neutral policies, and laws that benefited whites more than African Americans.

The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s was the final blow to institutional racism. People of color have been on a steady downfall since the days of race-based slavery. Barack Obama, a black man, to the highest political office in the United States is proof that we lived in a “Color Blind” society. Great progress has been made in achieving a fairer society. Alexander argues that this story largely misrepresents the conditions of poor and working class blacks today. “Nathaniel Bacon was a white property owner in Jamestown, Virginia who managed poor whites, indentured servants and blacks.” Slaves were in the lowest position they could possibly be in; even though the whites were free most of them lived in extreme poverty. Slaves were defined as three-fifths of a man not even considered a human being. After the death of slavery had been gone race still lived on , and is living on today. (Page 4; The Birth Of Slavery) Civil Rights Act of 1866 the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery, the fourteenth amendment “Prohibited states from denying citizens due process and; “equal protection of the laws”, the fifteenth amendment “Provided the right to vote should not be denied by anyone no matter what your race is”.

Today, a serious problem exists all over the world. Racial oppression takes place in the poorest and the richest countries, including America. Racial oppression is characterized by the majority, or the ruling race, imposing its beliefs, values, and laws on the minority, or the ruled race. In most areas, the ruling race is upper class whites that run the “system”, and have a disproportionate amount of power. In other areas, it may not be the white race, but it is still the race that is comprised of the majority, makes the laws, or has the most money. These are the keys to domination over the weaker minorities that don’t have the power to thrive under the majority’s system according to their own cultural beliefs,

In the United States today discrimination is still an issue in society. As a society progress has definitely been made, but it has never fully gone away. Some of the most discriminatory action takes place in the American justice system. Young minority males between the ages of 25-29 are subject to being treated the most unfairly while whites of the same age are still being treated better than any race in this country. African American and Hispanic males are being incarcerated at higher rates than white males in America. Not only are minorities being incarcerated more, but also they are subject to harsher sentencing terms, fall victim to police racial profiling, and have disparities in the war on drugs. Also whites are still the dominant